Girl bit by blood-sucking kissing bug in Delaware, CDC confirms

WRAL ^ | 24 April 2019

[DUMBGRUNT]

According to the CDC, kissing bugs are blood-sucking insects that feed on animals and humans. Their nickname comes from their tendency to bite faces.

The CDC estimates that there are 300,000 cases of Chagas in the U.S., with most of those contracted in other countries. But the family of the girl who was bit had not traveled outside the country recently, the statement said.

[RummyChick]

there is a worse one

wheel bug.

i found a weird looking bug on my porch that was dead. maybe a spider killed it . not sure

looked it up and know to avoid it.

another bite that may be even worse is the Cow killer - red velvet ant.

[Freedom56v2]

I sent you mail...

[RummyChick]

This idiot does test bites from insects. About the 3 minute mark he does one from the cow killer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDHtYfX7bWU

[Karl Spooner]

Stock up on diatomaceous earth!

[chalkfarmer]

I think you might be seeing box elder bugs.

https://www.pestworld.org/pest-guide/occasional-invaders/boxelder-bugs/

[RummyChick]

Here is Coyote stinging himself with a bullet ant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXjHb5QmDV0

People are amazed he can do these videos without cussing.

thankfully, I don’t think US has any bullet ants

[South Dakota]

Come to Hot Springs
The banana belt of South dakota

[chalkfarmer]

I remember Evans Plunge!

[Ken Regis]

Isn’t Biden supposed to announce tomorrow?

[RummyChick]

okay..now I have seen it all as it pertains to insects. after watching Coyote Peterson scream in agony over one bullet ant...

there is a tribe that makes their people stick hands into mitts filled with them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvIFO9srUw

[DUMBGRUNT]

He who hesitates,
is lost.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Help!

I thought it was a biting bug from Florida.

But, NO, they are in northern Illinois too!!!

And not any fun at all.

Reports of sightings in DuPage county!!!

[EEGator]

What a jackass. He should also volunteer for “Ow My Balls”...

[RummyChick]

It’s like intentionally shooting yourself.

This guy has been shot and he said a wheel bug bite is like getting shot..and a wheel bug isn’t as bad as a bullet ant

https://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Wheel-bugs-deliver-world-of-hurt-Their-bite-2880616.php

thankfully, I have escaped being bitten by these various things have seen in the yard.

[golux]

Cracks and gaps should be inspected and sealed, and chimney flues should be tightly closed when they are not in use...

Seal your homes, but never your borders.

[heartwood]

Chagas disease is caused by a protozoon. Since this is a one-celled organism with a nucleus, instead of a bacteria without a nucleus, the medications that kill it tend to be very hard on human beings and a lot of people can’t tolerate the course of treatment.

There may be a vaccine in development, but in the meanwhile, don’t live in a thatched roof house and don’t raise guinea pigs for food.

[Freedom56v2]

Don’t I wish...

I recognize Box Elder Bugs...these are somewhat different :(

But good point not to confuse them~

[Freedom56v2]

Sent you mail :)

[NelsTandberg]

Somecay I’ll learn to keep quiet. Buy stock in pacemaker firms. Early signs are cardiac conduction system problems - severe myopathies later.

Once upon a time, had special clinical devices for S. America ...

[vetvetdoug]

I did my term paper on Chagas Disease in veterinary school back in 1981 and warned that if the bug were to move North veterinarians were going to have to look closer at hematological samples for the parasites because the disease affects dogs also. The epidemiological map then suggested that the disease and the kissing bugs were moving North even then without the help of the illegal immigrants. One could have predicted this back then as we did the Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis disease as a model back in 1971.